12″ x 9″, acrylic on hardboard, painted at home, from a pic I took this morning, 11/8/09.
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I had taken a few snaps at the creek this morning before painting, and decided to do another study tonight at home. I feel like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters where all he sees and thinks about is that tower mountain, drawing it over and over, building a model. What is it that grips us, rivets us to a place and beckons that we come back over and over? I do not understand this, I do not understand much of anything anymore, and am grateful for it. Maybe this is what this creek possesses, is the healing from meaning and understanding. Maybe there is hope after all, maybe Hangman will be our deliverance.
This painting reminds me a little of Ellsworth Kelly, are you familiar with his work? He did these very geometric simplified shapes, but they somehow felt like maybe there was a landscape behind everything. A little like Rothko, but Rothko where Mark remained obedient to the organic uncertainties, Ellsworth cleaved to the ideas of geometric perfection. Somewhere in the middle is a very happy little land that no one has settled yet. That is where I would love to travel for a while.
Much beauty lies ahead, much that will lift us up and remind us that we are a people in love with love, hoping in hope, believing in belief. We need art, for art reminds us of our new home, just ahead. A new home, a New Earth.
Maybe one of these days I will try something new and paint apples or something, but for now I have no choice, I am married to this land, and God has not let me go. He has shackled me to these waters and willo not give me a hall pass. Oh well, I am just as happy painting one creek a thousand ways, I have all the time in the world.
We are eternal. We are children of heaven. We are more than what we are aware of.
Peace and contentment to you this evening, I appreciate all of you, your encouragement and most of all your faith. Keep looking up, your life is being perfected every moment, always follow your heart, listen to the interior whispers. The Lord carries you now, there is nothing to fear, there is only love and provision from above. Make your heart your number one priority, be honest with yourself, believe in your dreams, never give up, never give up, never give up.
Fight the good fight of faith, for the Lord is over and under to deliver and protect you and your family.
Embrace your desire for light.
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